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The AK

The AK-47 is a gas-operated assault rifle chambered for the 7.62x39mm cartridge, developed in the Soviet Union by Mikhail Kalashnikov and originating the Kalashnikov family of rifles, and after more than seven decades it and its variants remain the most popular and widely used rifles globally.

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The AK

The AK-47 is a gas-operated assault rifle chambered for the 7.62x39mm cartridge, developed in the Soviet Union by Mikhail Kalashnikov and originating the Kalashnikov family of rifles, and after more than seven decades it and its variants remain the most popular and widely used rifles globally.

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he AK-47, officially known as the Avtomat Kalashnikov (Russian: Автомат

Калашникова, lit. 'Kalashnikov's automatic [rifle]'; also known as the Kalashnikov or just AK), is
a gas-operated assault rifle that is chambered for the 7.62×39mm cartridge. Developed in
the Soviet Union by Russian small-arms designer Mikhail Kalashnikov, it is the
originating firearm of the Kalashnikov (or "AK") family of rifles. After more than seven decades,
the AK-47 model and its variants remain the most popular and widely used rifles in the world.

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